Karan Singh v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.81341 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-61 Year-2025 Thana- KUWARI District- Araria ====================================================== Karan Singh S/O Narayan Singh Resident of Village- Megha Ward No. 01, P.S.- Kuari, District- Araria ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Nadimul Hasan For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Lakshmi Kant Sharma ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 18-12-2025 1.
Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2.
The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Excise Act.
3.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and allegation is of recovery of 142.2 litres of liquor from the husk house of the petitioner.
4.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession and husk house is a place outside the house and is accessible to villagers at large. It is next submitted that no prudent person would use his own
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.81341 of 2025(2) dt.18-12-2025 2/3 premises for committing an occurrence and thus would create evidence against himself and hence would get implicated. It is further submitted that it appears that someone inimical to the petitioner concealed the liquor in the husk house and petitioner came to be implicated in absence of proper investigation at the instance of local people, but then the name of the person, who disclosed the name of the petitioner is not disclosed in the FIR, which casts an aspersion on the case of the prosecution. 5.
Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
6.
Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on Provisional anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Kuari P.S. Case No. 61 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS.
7.
It is made clear that thereafter the learned Trial Court shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in the event if it is found that petitioner has antecedent of even one case
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.81341 of 2025(2) dt.18-12-2025 3/3 then it would be presumed that petitioner, for the purposes of seeking anticipatory bail, had concealed his antecedent before this Court, as such, the provisional anticipatory bail order shall not be confirmed, but after verification if it is found that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent in that event the provisional anticipatory bail order shall be confirmed forthwith. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T